Making a Liar Out of Me (Rehearsal)

I tell people you just going through changes

And that you're acquainted both with night and day

That your money's good and you just being courageous

On them burning bridges knowing your feet are made of clay

Well I say you won't be destroyed by your inventions

That you brought it all under captivity

And that you really do have all the best intentions

But you're making a liar out of me

Well I say that you're just young and self-tormented

But that deep down you understand

The hopes and fears and dreams of the discontented

That threaten now to overtake your promised land

Well I say you'd not sow discord among brothers

Nor drain a man of his integrity

That you remember the cries of the orphans and their mothers

But you're making a liar out of me

But you're making a liar out of me

Well I say that that ain't flesh and blood you're drinking

In the wounded empire of your fool's paradise

With a light above your head forever blinking

Turning virgins into merchandise

That you must have been beautiful when you were living

You remind me of some old-time used-to-be

I say you can be trusted with the power you been given

But you're making a liar out of me

So many things so hard to say as you stumble

To take refuge in your offices of shame

As the earth beneath my feet begins to rumble

And your young men die for nothin' not even fame

I say that someday you'll begin to trust us

And that your conscience has not been slain by conformity

That you stand up unafraid to believe in justice

But you're making a liar out of me

You're making a liar out of me

Well I can hear the sound of distant thunder

From an open window at the end of every hall

Now that you're gone I got to wonder

If you ever were here at all

I say you never sacrificed my children

To some false God of infidelity

And that it's not the Tower of Babel that you're building

But you're making a liar out of me

You're making a liar out of me

Well you're making a liar out of me?